Plate 1 figs. a–h
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Flowering n = 69 observations
Peak flowering in Jun, from 69 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.
Also published as 22 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Brahea minima (Nutt.) H.Wendl.
- Chamaerops acaulis Michx.
- Chamaerops arundinacea (Aiton) Sm.
- Chamaerops glabra Mill.
- Chamaerops louisiana Darby
- Chamaerops sabaloides Baldwin ex Darl.
- Corypha minor Jacq.
- Corypha pumila Walter
- Rhapis acaulis (Michx.) Walter ex Willd.
- Rhapis arundinacea Aiton
- Sabal adansonii Guerns.
- Sabal adansonii var. major hort. ex Becc.
- Sabal adiantina Raf.
- Sabal caroliniana Poir.
- Sabal deeringiana Small
- Sabal floribunda Katzenstein
- Sabal glabra (Mill.) Sarg.
- Sabal louisiana (Darby) Bomhard
- Sabal minima Nutt.
- Sabal pumila (Walter) Elliott
- Sabal serrulata var. minima (Nutt.) Alph.Wood
- Sabal speciosa L.H.Bailey
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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